BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Jul. 20, 1925

¶Sir R. W. Hamilton (Liberal) asked the Government if it intended to
intervene in the Moroccan War and, if so, would it permit debate before
military and naval operations were begun. Foreign Secretary Austen
Chamberlain replied: "I cannot give that assurance. If the Government
comes to the conclusion that there is a serious menace in the Tangier
zone* its hands must not be tied."

¶A Cabinet committee, headed by Lord Birkenhead and created to consider
the Admiralty's plea for six new cruisers, approved the
construction of four.